Alaskan Bush People's Matt Brown Is Celebrating Christmas ALONE ...

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ESTRANGED son Matt Brown looks to be celebrating the holidays alone this year, as he continues to rehab and recover from an alcohol addiction and accusations of rape.

The former Alaskan Bush People member provided an update on his lonely lifestyle.

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In an Instagram video, he shared: “I’m focusing this year on kind of doing my own thing. Instead of holding to the old traditions and stuff of Christmases from the past, I intend to just kind of make my own thing now.

“And I’m really kind of excited about it, you know?”

Of course, Matt, 38, may not have a choice but to do his “own thing,” especially as he is currently alone in rehab.

The eldest child of Billy and Ami Brown seems to also be the most mysterious member of the Brown clan.

Matt first entered a rehab facility for alcohol abuse in 2016.

While the rest of the Brown clan relocated to Washington, Matt moved to California where he underwent treatment at the Betty Ford Center for addiction.

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Matt said at the time that he’d started to notice himself “spiraling” after spending more time in Juneau, Alaska, telling People he was drinking with friends and making “bad choices”.

RAPE ACCUSATIONS

Some of those allegedly came in 2018, when Matt was accused of raping two women.

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First accuser Jessica Jurges, 35, a one-time personal assistant of the reality TV family, alleged in an exclusive interview with The Sun that Matt raped her in a swimming pool as she tried to fight him off.

Jessica said Matt, who has had well-documented alcohol problems, started drinking vodka while she drank Hennessy before persuading her to get in a swimming pool on July 8, 2018.

Describing the alleged assault, Jessica said: “He ripped my bathing suit off. Wouldn’t let go of me. I said ‘no’ probably a million times.

“I was disgusted. I said everything nasty I could to him, to get him off me and it wasn’t happening”.

Shelly Dawn Early, Matt’s then-manager, alleged that Matt raped her three days later at the same location in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, when he was”out-of-his-mind drunk.”

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She claimed: “He knew that I had a hip replacement and he knew that my legs aren’t as strong as the rest of my body.

“And that’s how it happened. I couldn’t ward him off because my hips were weak.

“He was out-of-his-mind drunk. After it happened, he told me that I raped him – that’s how drunk he was.”

FAMILY’S RESPONSE

Both women reported the alleged rapes to the LAPD’s Topanga Division, who launched an investigation and passed the case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office.

However, the DA’s office later declined to prosecute.

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Following the alleged attack, Jessica reached out to Matt’s brothers Bear and Gabe, who apologized for their troubled brother. 

In one text message reviewed by The Sun, Bear told Jessica: “I’d have killed him! No one disrespects a lady! That is unacceptable, he will pay!”

RETURN TO REHAB

The former reality star returned to rehab a second time in September 2018, explaining that “after a year of ups and downs” he hoped to have his “life back on track soon.”

Things were looking up for Matt by March 2019, when he shared a picture of a sobriety coin from the Betty Ford Center for addiction.

He sounded positive as he revealed to his followers that after several months clean, “life just keeps getting better.”

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He stayed on track and this year, shared his two year sober coin.

Matt wrote alongside the sentimental photo: ”2 years ago today, I walked in the front doors of Betty Ford, completely broken.

“Slowly one day at a time, they helped me build myself back.

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“It wasn’t just about getting me back on the road again, for me it was mostly about processing addressing and dealing with the negative feelings and events of my past, that I just couldn’t get over.”

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